Andy Cato
2024
Knighted with the French Chevalier de l’Orde du Mérite Agricole, winner of the 2020 Agro-ecological innovation prize, and Grammy award-winning musician, it’s been 15 years since Andy Cato first read about the damaging environmental consequences of the food system and set about to create a better one. A quest to become self-sufficient led to a fascination with the soil, plants and the miracle at work in the few inches of topsoil that sustains us. He sold the rights to his songs to buy a farm and join the ranks of those building new kinds of farming systems. Alongside co-founders George Lamb and Edd Lees, he established Wildfarmed, a pioneering regenerative farming company, in the belief that food is our greatest point of agency for tackling the crises facing us. By giving people affordable food choices that allow them to participate in restoring nature, we can not only fix our food system, but fix our planet.
My Sessions
Intercropping – Practical Lessons
Ben Adams
Andy Cato
Jerry Alford
David White
Intercropping (also known as bi-cropping, Polycropping, companion cropping) involves the growing of two or more crops together, driven by an understanding that plant diversity is the real driver of soil recovery and soil health. Intercropping has been shown to improve soil’s resilience to stresses, reduce the need for synthetic fertilisers and increase biodiversity. Yet it […]
Wildfarmed presents Dirty Talk
You listened, you digested, you’ve absorbed 2 days of all there is to know about soil, compost, nematodes, sustainable fibres, healthy food and educating the youth, and are INSPIRED Now, where to share that newfound knowledge? Come mix and mingle, with the brightest, most energetic minds and get connected for some Dirty Talk. Hosted by […]